Sunday, April 23, 2023
Comer’s Tessa wins the case for Suzie Miller’s play as urgent, necessary theater.
The post <em>Prima Facie</em> Review: Jodie Comer Is Blistering in Suzie Miller’s Indictme…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 10:00PMWednesday, April 12, 2023
Ijames celebrates his characters in all their hammy, juicy humanity.
The post <em>Fat Ham</em> Review: James Ijames’s Gay Black <em>Hamlet</em> Speaks to Many on Br…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 09:00PMTuesday, April 4, 2023
Shucked should probably invest in some “Keep the punchlines” pins.
The post Review: The Grassroots Musical <em>Shucked</em> Charms On Broadway, One Corny Pun at a Time appear…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 09:00PMSunday, March 26, 2023
Sweeney Todd can still shock, even if this production seldom goes for the jugular.
The post <em>Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street</em> Review: A Fine Showcase for a …
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 09:00PMWednesday, March 15, 2023
The Harder They Come deserves a weirder, more surprising stage adaptation.
The post <em>The Harder They Come</em> Review: Suzan-Lori Parks’s Jukebox Adaptation Falls Hard appea…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 10:00PMThursday, February 9, 2023
Pictures from Home is a frantically verbal adaptation that’s not given to subtlety.
The post <em>Pictures from Home</em> Review: A Blaringly Unsubtle Family Portrait appeared f…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 10:00PMSunday, January 22, 2023
A united community is a powerful force that can be used for healing or destruction.
The post The Best of the 2023 Under the Radar Festival appeared first on Slant Magazine.
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 10:17AMTuesday, December 20, 2022
These shows range from revitalizing revivals to redemptive restagings of undervalued gems.
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SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 03:46PMSunday, December 11, 2022
The show’s pizzazz may be enough to help it survive in a turbulent Broadway landscape.
The post <em>Some Like It Hot</em> Review: Billy Wilder’s Classic Gets a Contemporary M…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 10:20PMTuesday, November 1, 2022
Thomas Ostermeier's production reclaims Hamlet, fleetingly but full-heartedly, for all of us.
The post <em>Hamlet</em> Review: As Madness Would Have It appeared first on Slant Ma…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 11:29AMSaturday, October 22, 2022
Watching the play is squirmingly uncomfortable in a way that reading Hanya Yanagihara’s book never is.
The post Red-Hot Savagery: Ivo van Hove’s <em>A Little Life</em> at BAM…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 02:44PMThursday, September 29, 2022
At its most arresting, american (tele)visions stirs its characters’ guiding emotions into a frenzied mixture that matches and mirrors the overwhelming intensity of the on-stage screens.
Th…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 07:00PMMonday, July 11, 2022
If this Richard III has a guiding concept, it’s in the dismantling and displacement of Shakespeare’s treatment of disability.
The post Summer of Discontent: Shakespeare in the Park’s &…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 03:17PMThursday, June 9, 2022
Let’s hope Broadway’s most racially diverse season will be capped by a ceremony that fully celebrates that sea change.
The post 2022 Tony Awards: Predicting the Likely Winners, from <…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 01:28PMFriday, May 6, 2022
Everything about this production is handled with a light, inviting touch.
The post Review: All Wishes Granted at New York City Center’s Revival of <em>Into the Woods</em> appea…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 02:18PMTuesday, April 26, 2022
Michael R. Jackson’s A Strange Loop nudges the musical theater form in a startling new direction.
The post <em>A Strange Loop</em> Review: A Big, Black, and Queer-Ass Revitaliz…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 10:00PMTuesday, April 19, 2022
The omnipresent horror of what we so quickly understand to be happening diminishes the play’s proximity to pleasure more than it should.
The post <em>How I Learned to Drive</em>…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 09:00PMThursday, April 14, 2022
By reducing the play’s grandeur to the scope of a lightly staged radio play, words become the principal protagonist.
The post <em>Cyrano de Bergerac</em> Review: A Stripped-Dow…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 09:00PMMonday, April 11, 2022
In Birthday Candles, tragedy and trauma have been rushed off stage with the ring of another gong and another year gone.
The post <em>Birthday Candles</em> Review: Celebrating a S…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 11:40AMMonday, April 4, 2022
Tragic timeliness and timelessness doesn’t make up for the scrawniness of Richard Greenberg’s play.
The post <em>Take Me Out</em> Review: The Pride and Prejudice of Major Lea…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 10:00PMFriday, March 25, 2022
Even if Help never entirely sheds its essayistic origins, the premise of finding poetry in personal scholarship is consistently compelling.
The post <em>Help</em> Review: Claudia…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 12:22PMSaturday, March 5, 2022
The play’s deliberate repetitions reveal how its characters rely upon the rituals they share to make meaning of a fractured world.
The post <em>On Sugarland</em> Review: A Refl…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 12:25PMThursday, February 10, 2022
This slightly zany production sells the show’s intelligent warmth with a persuasiveness to rival Harold Hill himself.
The post <em>The Music Man</em> Review: Till There Was Hug…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 08:30PMTuesday, February 1, 2022
The show is massively successful at demonstrating that Jackson was an extraordinary artist putting forth extraordinary art.
The post <em>MJ The Musical</em> Review: Broadway’s …
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 10:00PMTuesday, January 25, 2022
Eugene O’Neill’s play isn’t about all of us, as much as this production might lean into the allure of universality.
The post <em>Long Day’s Journey Into Night</em> Review…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 09:00PMThursday, December 16, 2021
The best theater of 2021 hasn’t just been a treat but a privilege to witness.
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SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 01:38PMThursday, December 9, 2021
This production squarely delivers as a potent tribute to the words and music of Stephen Sondheim.
The post Review: The Gender-Flipped <em>Company</em> Is an Imperfect but Loving …
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 09:00PMThursday, November 4, 2021
The Visitor is ultimately about powerlessness, a fable of despair that illustrates how nothing changes if only one man does.
The post Review: <em>The Visitor</em> Doesn’t Recog…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 09:00PMFriday, September 24, 2021
The 2021 Tony Awards, honoring the Broadway season that was cut short by the Covid pandemic, are all about memory.
The post 2021 Tony Awards: Predicting the Likely Winners, from <em>Sl…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 03:37PMTuesday, September 21, 2021
If the play’s first half shows America as distilled dystopia, that focus only sharpens after an ambitious structural shift.
The post Love and DREAMing in America: Martyna Majok’s <em&…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 06:00PMTuesday, August 10, 2021
Merry Wives distills what legacy we need most from Shakespeare now and what art we need most from each other.
The post Jacob Ming-Trent Takes Center Stage in Shakespeare in the Park’s <…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 08:43AM 
